Re: hemingway
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
I have heard myself that King James, the sponsor of the King Jimmy
version of the Bible, was wantonly immoral in a large number of ways, and
homosexually promiscuous. . .
BUT, the King James translation is not the only one that condemns
physical expressions of homosexuality. Every translation I've ever read
on this subject reads about the same way.
Jim
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 01:19:03 -0400 Aaron <aaron.brager@writeme.com>
writes:
>Being phony to oneself is one of the worst things I can think of.
>
>Being forced to be phony to society isn't bad, as long as you aren't
>using
>faulty logic to justify it.
>
>Speaking of gay people, is anyone here highly knowledgeable regarding
>the
>bible? A (gay) friend said that King James was gay; and that the KJ
>translation of the bible is the only one that says it is wrong. Any
>truth
>to this?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
>To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Sent: Sunday, June 06, 1999 1:06 AM
>Subject: Re: hemingway
>
>
>> Aaron wrote:
>> > Does it count as phony if one is forced into being phony via peer
>> pressure
>> > and death threats?
>> >
>> > > Hey! I'm still getting over the news that he was gay! What a
>painful
>> way
>> > to
>> > > live your life - as a phony all the way
>>
>> I meant being phony to yourself. To me there is no sadder fate than
>to
>> ignore that wonderful, timeless axiom `to thine own self be true'.
>It's
>> truly a quote to live by. If an individual is forced by society to
>live in
>> a way that is against their innermost self, then all the sadder. It
>just
>> seems a shame that Hemingway could not deal with it the way that
>countless
>> other writers could - W.H. Auden, Isherwood, Capote, Vidal, so on
>(and I
>> chose them because they lived in an era in which it was just as
>unaccepted
>> as in Hemingway's time) . It just makes me a little sad that it
>makes me
>> question the vicissicitude of Hemingway's work - all that macho
>posturing,
>> all the gunning and gal-ing - it was all a
>> masquerade ...
>>
>> Camille
>> verona_beach@geocities.com
>> @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>> @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>>
>
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